peeking around now they begin dreaming about the end of the crises that's not happening the nightmare only continues. the. the. hurricane sally begins to wreck havoc along the u.s. gulf coast sweeping in strong winds torrential rains and concerns about catastrophic flooding. again i missed on the attack and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. charged with undermining national security better russian protest leader maria kolesnikov could go to prison for up to 5 years. u.n. investigators accuse venezuelan president nicolas maduro as government and security

forces of crimes against humanity. and japan's parliament picks the next prime minister here she days to give priorities include fighting the pandemic and reviving the economy. now a 2 pronged to whether assault on the united states has people fleeing wildfires in one part of the country and rushing to avoid severe flooding and another slow moving hurricane sally is unleashing heavy rain and catastrophic flooding on the while on the gulf coast and another powerful storm is also growing and in the atlantic hurricane teddy could head butt muda as early as this weekend they're just 2 of 7 storms currently moving across the atlantic with 5 of them a categorized as tropical cyclones it's only the 2nd time on record this is happening. the last time was in 1971 and on the other side of the u.s.

in oregon a federal disaster has been declared as wildfires that continue to burn forcing people out of their homes jay gray is in mobile alabama. we're still getting a lashing from this storm keep the brain continue to fall here and will be a lot of damage and given your hurt them look at some of the other conditions here you can see the wind is really just think you've been throwing around pretty blue lamps here we know that trees are down across this city we also know that there's something to get damaged buildings and cold series to move down to mobile bay you can see the wind is pushing that water white obviously and different been going on for hours and will continue for several hours or we're going to continue to see this driving rain across this region the national weather service this one will likely see historic flooding in many areas as a result of hurricane valley it's still

a category 2 storm it does seem to be losing a bit a bit different but not enough to matter at this point and the real issue is it just broke through this to get up and move away it has moved across the shoreline but it's been no with curry to clear this area and so that the kind of thing that we're dealing with here right now and will continue to deal with for the next happened to 8 hours or so we know that power's out to more than $400000.00 people across the region i'm afraid that number is going to climb as well again we just heard when you take a beating this really just the opening of what's going to be a long and very difficult right here. and as i was saying earlier storms on the only natural disaster affecting the u.s. several states on the west coast are still battling record fires are again as the latest hot spot and present donald trump has approved its disaster declaration giving it access to more federal funds from s.t.k. to robin's reports. there's not much left of talent in phoenix in southern oregon

the ferocious wildfires of recent days have reduced most of the 2 small towns to ashes the worst thing i've ever seen in my life. it's the same up and down the west coast near boulder creek california dozens of homes were incinerated heaps of rubble covered chimneys and burned out vehicles all that remain near los angeles the so-called bobcat fire is only minimally contained it is burning close to the famed mt wilson astronomical observatory and outlying suburbs 23000 firefighters are battling dozens of major fires in california and oregon more than 4000 houses have burned in california alone and tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate and drifting over it all a choking shroud of smoke and ash it's making skies hazy as far away as new york

portland seattle and san francisco now have some of the worst air quality on the planet we started to read that and 95 rather than just that quatermass because that ash in s.t.k. to oregon 50 kilometers from portland police are allowing residents to return to their homes and assess the damage fires on this scale are unheard of in this part of oregon those have never happened i mean we've had fires you know open up in the national forth before they've never been this close to us to canada and i've lived here 33 years they've never been this close to me candy evacuated days ago but her home is a total loss has some stranger call you on the phone and tell you that your house is burning it's a total loss is it's not something you want to wake up to. amid the destruction signs of strength and resilience this is another aspect of this terrible disaster people coming together to support one another with donations of free food water and

other necessities organizers say so many donations have poured in here they can barely give it all away. people here say they all have to look out for one another . well it is donating all of our fresh made birds that anything that we can do to help out families that are in need you know like you know with the fires and everything we're going to need to make sure that we're helping out as much as we can that some of the organs fires are now partly contained helped by the verbal weather that the trees will likely continue to burn until the autumn rains begin in earnest weeks from now rob reynolds al-jazeera has to cater or. moving on and the belorussian protest leader who disappeared after being detained by masked men has now been charged with undermining national security kolesnikov is in jail and minsk after ripping up her passport to avoid being sent to ukraine by force

before her arrest she played a major role in organizing demonstrations against long time data alexander lukashenko he's accused of rigging last month's presidential election our correspondent step fasteners in the capital minutes she says almost all of the opposition leaders have either been locked up or forced to flee. these charges are actually quite broad to call for action aimed at undermining national security instead of what the police earlier sat was a coup d'etat which was of course much harder to prove but still she is facing 2 to 5 years in prison she was indeed the last female opposition leader still in the country and because she ripped up her prosperous overreading being deported to ukraine she gets turned tear into a national leader the opposition movement is not really relying on its leaders to be honest so it won't affect the protests that we have been seeing in the last couple of weeks in fact only one of the opposition members of the council that was

sick created to have this transitional government by the opposition is now still free and here in a ballerina's and she's in fact being protected by european diplomats 24 seventh's so they come to our house to make sure that she's also not being arrested. now venezuelan security forces have committed crimes against humanity with the knowledge and support of president nicolas maduro that's the finding of independent investigations commissioned by the un's top human rights agency their report says police and military killed and tortured and human you're a poet protesters they also use tactics including arbitrary detentions the authors conclude the crimes were part of state policy and not isolated incidents that's based on hundreds of interviews with victims and witnesses and the report also says if it isn't one as well it failed to act the international criminal court should

open an investigation on paul sales as a member of the u.n. fact finding mission on the ball of our own republican venezuela he says the evidence shows that president maduro and members of his government supported those tactics. the findings are i think very clearly what we said is that in addition to . formal policies the new government since 20. 1 an allusion to. the martin crying under which many many people were killed due to the serial real association with 7 groups and the other policy in relation to mormons to political suppression and the activities that were carried no quote neutered organized in many ways only especially when they're looking at things like cultural institution killings and some of the spontaneous we do find the president and minister of interior minister of defense and the directors of the relevant

organizations of intelligence and more which are they may have no use and participated in these activities. and i do a situation where independent and impartial investigations by the authorities in venezuela. it's not for us to. make amends to the i.c.c. for who should execute now mind you what we can see is that if you thought it isn't an assault on what you're going to do now quite clearly or those within the ice and since mind you so keep up those investigations. underpants emperor has appointed a new prime minister yesterday so that as a longtime ally of former prime minister shinzo who resigned last month for health reasons robert pride has more from sell. it's the ultimate victory for a self-made politician yasha he had a super who in a career spanning decades has finally risen to the highest political office in the land. in contrast to many of japan's previous prime ministers his previous sessa

shinzo are being included suger does not come from one of japan's elite political dynasties he's the son of a strawberry farmer his elevation means a change in style but not in substance as a faithful right hand man to say he is expected to follow the same conservative economic policies while applying his acknowledged problem solving skills to the continuing covert 19 crisis and the ill fated tokyo olympics that the pandemic has delayed and now threatens to wreck. a well known figure on the domestic political stage it was super powerful chief cabinet secretary who heralded last year's succession of emperors unveiling the name of the new imperial era. his appointment as prime minister was confirmed at an imperial palace audience with emperor and narrow hito while hardworking and reliable many believe he lacks the

charisma needed for the job in particular in his dealings with other world leaders i that's something that comes naturally to shinzo are they who leaves the office having set a record as japan's longest serving prime minister at a time so much i would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the people who supported me in both tough and difficult times of it in a time when the next today the sugar in demonstration will be born i would like to ask for your strong support for the ruling l.d.p. party suga as mission is to act as continuity prime minister for the next year before elections are called with japan's mounting problems suga needs to prove he has the required leadership skills to do that rob mcbride al-jazeera. still ahead here on al-jazeera find out what the u.s. congress had to say about boeing and last year's 2 crashes involving its 737 that

killed 346 people. are returning to flooded homes the challenge facing many people in sudan as they look to try to rebuild often unprecedented rains. hello there very cloudy picture across much of north asia there's also been plenty of rain in the 4 calls for the last few days this code of cloud is an area of low pressure working its way through the northeast is beginning to ease a little bit now the heavy rain is further to the south working its way throughout say across these western areas of japan's a very heavy amounts of rain this could produce some localized flooding it will continue to work its way across much of honshu up into her. through friday but as it does that things begin to drive across central areas of china but

a lot of that is also to do this mass you can see down to the south and that is the latest tropical storm that is heading towards vietnam taking the moisture on the rains with it then from there we head across into south asia again of course have seen some particularly heavy rains up into the pool for the last few days and they haven't really eased off or got more of that as we go through thursday the northeast of india as well and very widespread throughout much of bangladesh not particularly heavy downpours but of course so much of bangladesh is still under water but meanwhile we've got through thursday more heavy rains across maharashtra and read it does mean for the next few days it's going to stay very unsettled in mumbai those shows developing again generally late in the day and really through friday extending down the western ghats the right way down south into carola. a face can tell a story without uttering a single one that. unknowing. can guide us.

to a simple time to inform us. the unconventionality of life witnessed through the lens of the human mind. is what inspires us. witness documentaries on al-jazeera. again. let's remind you of our top stories this hour hurricane charley is unleashing heavy rain and catastrophic flooding on the u.s. gulf coast more than half a meter of rain has already fallen in parts of florida mall

a number of people have been rescued from damaged houses and alabama. the white house has approved oregon's disaster declaration making it possible to access federal funds several wildfires there continue to battle out of control in the western state hundreds of homes have already been destroyed. and japan's emperor has only a point of the new prime minister. as a long time ally of former prime minister shinzo of who resigned last month for health reasons. the number of people affected by floods in sudan has risen to more than 650000 tens of thousands of homes have been damaged by the unprecedented rise of the revenue and as its waters reside received i'm sorry residents are struggling to clean up and make repairs correspondent have a morgan reports from. this is what the inside of a lattice house looks like now weeks of flooding has damaged or destroyed much of what he has he says he's got no way of treating the water out hiring

a water pump is costly and he's lost too much already but he says moving elsewhere after the floods is not an option shadier than my house is about 3 kilometers away from the dial and i've lived here for a number of years. getting a plot to move elsewhere is costly with today's economy and me and my family can't afford it so i'll drain the water and hope this doesn't happen again next year. abdellatif home is one of dozens that have been damaged in his village of kalac in the southern part of sudan's capital hard to. torrential rains caused the nile to rise to levels not seen in more than a century the resulting flood damage to well over 100000 homes around sudan most were just kilometers away as the river burst its banks wiping out villages and towns and displacing more than 600000 people it forced the government to declare a 3 month state of emergency some chose to stay in their homes despite them being filled with water the man waters have begun receding after nearly 3 weeks and

people in the area are hoping to start the recovery but there have been problems with the drainage system and its weakness can be seen on the streets of a lot of them after rainfall since the start of the rainy season 2 months ago some of the major highways have been cut off schools and health facilities have either been damaged or destroyed it's a site that repeats itself every year but meteorologists say this year's rains are unprecedented so dan's government says its focus is on helping those who've been displaced and preventing water borne diseases but more rains and floods are expected in the coming days and those displaced say the government needs to do more to help them or their model for how. we want the government to give us new plots so that this doesn't happen again really who live in the banks of the mire we don't have the ability to buy new plots it should be the government giving us a plot so that the problem is addressed by the root and normal houses collapse from rained off until he gets

a new plot this house is all that out the lot he has he says he'll do what he can to get the water out so that he and his family can return to their home and start rebuilding he will morgan algis there are hundreds and. well refugees being moved into a new camp on the greek island of last boss must have their asylum claims processed quickly so they can leave that's according to the united nations 12000 people were left without shelter when the morea can't burn down last week the u.n. representative in greece has asked for european help to house them there are fears that the new camp will suffer the same overcrowding problems as the last one stephanie decker has moved from this boss. at the moment this is the only option that the greek authorities are saying where they can ensure that the refugees in the migrants have you know food shelter and most importantly where they're going to process their paperwork a lot of people are still reluctant you can probably see them having bought some some things in some supermarkets ahead and then they pull them back to the street

where they're currently living those that are not in the camp because the conditions that moriarty counted for down were so desperate and we've had a visit here of the u.n. h.-e. r. head of the group office of the u.n. agency that deals with refugees and i asked him you know they themselves would criticize morea camp whether you know he was satisfied with this one but this is what he had to say it's not manageable to manage a camp with 5 times its capacity or even trying to the capacity that insomuch as we speak you need she are easy pushing the authorities. the process so that people do not stay too long in these places this is still our message we hope that any new camp does not go. does not become overcrowded because it's unmanageable so it's overcrowded and it's also having to do with allowing these people to leave the island the sense of speeding up their paperwork the other side of the story is that

basically the islanders are fed up they've been hosting this population for years now many people many of them want them to leave completely but certainly you know this camp is expanding still the army is expanding it it certainly seems at the moment and even the message from the greek authorities is that people are not leaving the island any time soon. now the british prime minister is refusing to back down of a controversial new legislation forest johnson says he's confident that britain and the e.u. will not be forced into an ideal breakfast johnson has defended his proposed law which would allow his government to override parts of its withdrawal agreement with the e.u. the government admits that the bill could break international law. the head of the european commission says the chances of reaching a deal are fading has more from london. in the european parliament the european commission had a sort of an delay in quoting the margaret thatcher the previous conservative prime minister of course saying that breaking international law is not in britain's

interest and not in the interest of future trade deals just a very un subtle hint to boris johnson about how she feels about the way he's going about this internal markets bill which passed its 1st reading here in the house of commons on monday which is coming back next week for a possible amendment by some of johnson's own conservative party are unhappy with the message it sending to the outside world over trust and over future trade deals in parliament today boris johnson was told by the a senior representative of the scottish national party that the proposed bill also snatches back the devolved powers from scotland and the devolved nations johnson rejects that he's also hit by carter there's been a stern warning from the u.s. congress that this kind of move could really ward a future u.s. u.k. free trade deal he's denying that it would damage the good friday peace agreement

which is at the heart of much of the argument. a horrific culmination of failures by boeing's engineers and management that's the conclusion of a us house investigation which claims the plane make if a 2737 max crashes that killed 346 people the report says a series of decisions by boeing employees led to the crash of a lion and an ethiopian airlines flight within 6 months of each other the report also places blame on the federal aviation administration for what it calls grossly insufficient of a science the entire 737 months feat is still grounded and our white house correspondent can be health that hasn't yet another report and there isn't a lot that is particularly new here in terms of isolation but what this report is is the most comprehensive to date in terms of outlining the failures not only on the part of boeing the manufacturer but also on the part of the federal aviation

administration or the agency that oversees aviation in the united states often referred to as the f.a.a. what they say in this report by house democrats in the transportation committee is there was a pattern of technical miscalculations management misjudgments an oversight lapses and also a severe lack of accountability when it came to the oversight now what this basically says is there wasn't one singular event that caused these crashes but instead it was the culmination of technical assumptions not only by boeing's engineers but also by the lack of transparency by the management so this is a particularly damning report for the company but also it cites gross mismanagement on the part of the f.a.a. and the u.s. city of louisville is to pay brianna tailless family $12000000.00 in compensation for head to earth the 26 year old black woman was shot by police repeatedly when they forced their way into her apartment the settlement will be accompanied by

reforms in the city's police department mike hanna reports. very clear 7. brianna. when a mistake oh during months of the nationwide black lives not to protest we are now taylor was shot dead in a own home during a botched narcotics raid and now the city has accepted responsibility and will pay a record amount to settle a wrongful death lawsuit and also implemented reforms in the city's police department as part of this settlement little metro government agrees to make several important policy changes 1st to build stronger community connections between our police officers and the people they serve we will one establish a housing credit program to incentivize officers to live in certain low income census tracks within the city. through. 2

the on the tailless attorney has welcomed a settlement had been so lone get into this day where we could assure that briana taylor life when be swept under the rock like so many of the black women in america who had been killed by police marginalized. but regardless of this landmark still. owned the journey to justice we still are demanding that kentucky attorney general dan your camera brain charges a made only against the police officers that murdered briana taylor immediately this week a sentiment echoed by brianna tailless mother as significant as today it's only the

beginning of getting full justice for brianna. we must not lose focus on what the real drive is and with that being said it is time to move forward with the criminal charges because she deserves that and more. so please continue to say her name. briana. that seems likely with activists pitching to keep up their campaign begins racism and police brutality across the country by kind of. washington. well u.s. democratic presidential candidate joe biden has kicked off his campaign in florida he's seeking the support of hispanic versus for both biden and president on from florida is seen as a must win state and he got a report from miami. if joe biden wants to win in november as presidential election he'll need the majority of floridians to back him including this state's crucial

latino vote is the former vice president knows there's a lack of enthusiasm and deep mistrust of what the republican party calls his socialist agenda this then is a chance for biden to convince hispanic voters who make up 20 percent of flour does a lecture it that he's a man don't jump is fairly spending quality time and time again and that's not a secret where the tunas heinous act of separating children from their families on our border or his repeated attacks on dreamers are neglecting the people of puerto rico after hurricane maria or his repeated failure to make sure essential workers have the personal protective equipment they need i'm going to be good to go down as almost rest of presidents in american history republican attack odds of being hitting home in this battleground state many like biden's politics to nations latinos fled a message that resonates with conservative voters 5th will his administration will lean too far to the left the biden campaigns hitting back spending millions

targeting voters with spanish language ads democratic party organizers say the republican party is playing with people's emotions a while it's something that works very well and. will pop into their ear. meaning. president trump launched his latinos for truck campaign last year and he's continued to court hispanic voters across the country despite the fact that latinos historically vote democratic polls in florida show a tight race between the 2 candidates but many hispanic americans came here to pursue the american dream right came we all want the america i want the american dream we all want the american dream this is and if you look at what they're asking for it's like the american nightmare that many in the democratic party in florida have reportedly been urging joe biden to pay more attention to the latino. vote for months hillary clinton narrowly lost to president trump here in 2016 but beat the

president in support from latinos by a large margin it's long been said that all roads to the white house go through florida both candidates acutely aware of the importance of the state and its latino voters in this presidential election latino voters may be the hardest force over and ultimately the most crucial and agalloch are all desire by every florida. have and i says out of there and these are the headlines hurricane sandy is unleashing heavy rain and catastrophic flooding on the u.s. gulf coast more than half a meter of rain has already fallen in parts of florida and a number of people have been rescued from damaged houses in alabama jay gray has more from o.b.o. in alabama. bill giving a lashing from the storm to break and continue to fall here and well below about much and given you heard him look at some of the other conditions here you can see

the wind is really just think it's been growing around the land here we know that these are down across this city we also know that they would never get damage to buildings and homes here if you move down to mobile bay you can see the wind is pushing that water white your way and different been going on for hours and world in him for several hours or we're going to continue to do the driving rain across this region the national weather service this morning will likely be his story wording in many areas as a result of hurricane dolly now the white house has approved oregon's disaster declaration making it possible to access federal funds several wildfires continue to burn out of control in the western states hundreds of homes have now been destroyed. a better russian protest leader who disappeared after being detained by masked men has been charged with undermining national security arena kolesnikov is in jail and meant to ripping up her passport to avoid being sent to ukraine by

force before her arrest she played a major role in organizing demonstrations against longtime data alexander. venezuelan security forces have committed crimes against humanity with the knowledge and support of president nicolas maduro that's the finding of independent investigations commissioned by the un's top human rights body their report says police and military killed and tortured and 100 euro per protested. japan's emperor has appointed a new prime minister yesterday so his nomination was confirmed by parliamentary vote earlier on wednesday he's a longtime ally of former prime minister shinzo abe who resigned last month for health reasons well those are the headlines i'll have another news update for you here on algis they're off to witness the architect to stay with us.

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